Lussantian general election, 2019

The 2019 Lussantian general election will be held on December 27, 2019, to elect members to the 41st Vereynavyets. These occur three years after the previous elections held in 2016, due to the Term Reduction Act passed in 2017 by the Vereynavyets fixing the length of a parliamentary term (and thus a presidential one) to three years instead of five. Those elections saw the rise of Ice Bear to power, and reshaped the Lussantian political landscape in its entirety. The three coalition parties, the National Centre, the Progress Party and Green Democracy, became one united formation come 2017, named the 2016 Movement, despite the defection of a part of the Progress Party's members, concerned about the formation being too left-wing. Those eventually formed a new centrist party named Civic Revolution. President Ice Bear declared he would not run for reelection, thinking his mission has been accomplished. In a shocking turn of events, liberal candidate Johana Svinsonová got elected chairperson of the movement in October 2019 by a short lead. This choice was controversial, mostly to former members of the National Centre and Green Democracy, denouncing an "lame attempt to keep voters tempted by Civic Revolution". Svinsonová, a controversial figure who defended the war on Brilliania and Joeriakia inside her party, has retorted to these claims by accusing her detractors of "endangering the great progressive dream that led our movement to the top 3 years ago".

The Democratic Socialists, which were tipped to be the largest party in 2016 thanks to a pro-market and more liberal platform and then totally got taken by surprise by the National Centre landslide, underwent a massive restructuring of their own as well. Upon the unexpected defeat of Nathalie Gothard in 2016, a heated leadership election took place in early 2017, with staunch left-winger, Lorringe socialist Jean-Marc Tomblaine winning over establishment candidate Breta Sobotka. Under his leadership, the party drifted to the left and started to promote an "unapologetically socialist" manifesto, including among others the idea of a basic universal income, cancellation of student debt and the creation of a wealth tax. These controversial ideas were embraced by far-left party New Deal, which agreed to sit out of this election in order to not divide the left-wing electorate.

The far-right, populist party True Lussantians also stunned last election by overtaking the ruling Radicals, relegating them as only the fourth-largest party in parliament. Charismatic leader Eliška Čech is the only 2016 leader to run again in 2019. Extremely popular and uncontested within her party, she is believed to increase her numbers even more, profiting from the divisions between the 2016 Movement and Civic Revolution, and seducing former Radical voters with an ultraliberal and conservative, traditionalist platform. The Radicals, on the other hand, are struggling to recover, having selected young, ambitious and "traditional" conservative MP Tomás Polaček as leader, in a last attempt to keep voters that could be seduced by True Lussantians.

Another big break-up event occured in the Regions Union, an alliance of regionalist parties formed in 2014, mainly between the Scavian Rally, Notre Avenir, the Thionian National Party, the Novylussantian Action and Initiative for an United Varscavia. Founded as a big tent party, the discreptancies between left-wing Notre Avenir and Thionian National Party and the center-right to far-right Varscavian and Novylussantian formations became too important, which resulted in both left-wing parties quitting the alliance. Notre Avenir, a Lorringeau regionalist party, advocates for a reunification of Upper and Lower Lorringe into a single province, calling the division unnatural and "Vltaha-made". The party also wants to hold a referendum of independence only if their voice is left unheard by the central government about the matter, unlike the TNP who are more radical about the issue in Thionia, with the intent of holding one as soon as they come to power in the province.